I don't think Torrentfreak has as much malicious intent as you think but I would agree overall. I love libgen and I would not be able to read as much as I do w

I don't think Torrentfreak has as much malicious intent as you think but I would agree overall. I love libgen and I would not be able to read as much as I do without it but no one seems to ask how Libgen got its library to begin with. Yes a lot of it is Onedrive and Proquest rips which maybe you can convince yourself is ethical but a lot of the books on there especially the independent more technical ones are bought with a stolen credit card which screws the author over twice: once for the loss of sales and again with the chargeback fee. "They can afford it" is the new hip justification for theft but I don't find it persuasive because it would justify theft from almost anyone in a decently developed country. Though I would never pay for scientific journals so maybe I'm a hypocrite.